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| [ Untitled ] 17.5 x 29 cms. Plates 209 and 210. The author has arrived in Venice and through Padua and Verona is returning to the Hague. ".....That which I am going to report will without doubt seem incredible to those that will prophesize too much, however I can assure it for uncontested truth, and which I saw, as the saying is, with my own eyes. The 4th of 1686 there arose a great storm at Venice, of rain and continued thunder, and such prodigious hail stones that on the side where the wind sat all the glass windows of the houses were broke...I took a draught of them to preserve the memory of them.... seen here in plate 209....." "....... During my stay at Venice I was presented with a small animal called Gerbo, which was brought for a rarity from Barbary. I found it of a very extraordinary figure. His shape, head ears and colour was much like a hare. His two hindmost feet on which only he went, were extraordinarily long and on the contrary those before very short, having at the ends something like a little hand where with this Animal fed himself... as in plate 210. Price: CyP 20.00 |